HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 285 316
Rank change year-on-year -61 +31 +55
Contract jobs citing HP 59 62 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 1.10% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 52
10th Percentile £154 £148 £150
25th Percentile £161 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +50.00% -26.32%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £500
90th Percentile £497 £1,095 £594
England median daily rate £210 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -50.59% +13.33% -11.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile £18.43 £20.09 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £23.03 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +29.35% -5.85%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £22.85
90th Percentile - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £20.09 £18.87 £21.88
% change year-on-year +6.47% -13.74% +16.11%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,547 5,660 7,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.44% 45.43% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 3,719 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 93 133
10th Percentile £18.56 £15.97 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £36.00
90th Percentile £77.42 £67.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.93 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.72% +17.56% -43.75%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -19 6 £475 -9.52% 5
West London -26 4 £145 -43.14% 3
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) BASE24
2 5 (8.47%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (8.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.69%) PORTIA
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.47%) AWS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Wireless
2 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) Firewall
3 2 (3.39%) DHCP
3 2 (3.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.69%) IPsec
4 1 (1.69%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.69%) SMTP
4 1 (1.69%) SSL
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (6.78%) OLTP
3 2 (3.39%) Big Data
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.69%) Base SAS
4 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (1.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) JIRA
2 7 (11.86%) Selenium
3 4 (6.78%) TestRail
4 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.08%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.69%) Appium
5 1 (1.69%) JMeter
5 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.69%) NUnit
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.69%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 17 (28.81%) Banking
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Break Fix Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Field Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Hardware Technician
3 8 (13.56%) IT Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Field Service Technician
5 6 (10.17%) Hardware Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Server Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Field Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) IT Support
6 5 (8.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Server Support
7 4 (6.78%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Test Manager
8 3 (5.08%) Desktop Support
8 3 (5.08%) Junior
8 3 (5.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) Middleware
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.17%) Tandem
3 5 (8.47%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.47%) EMV
4 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.39%) Clustering
6 2 (3.39%) PKI
7 1 (1.69%) APACS
7 1 (1.69%) Celerra
7 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.69%) EMC Centera
7 1 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.69%) EMC VNX
7 1 (1.69%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.69%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.69%) Symmetrix
7 1 (1.69%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.03%) Windows
2 10 (16.95%) Mac OS
3 9 (15.25%) Android
4 8 (13.56%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Customer Service
2 15 (25.42%) Break/Fix
3 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
5 10 (16.95%) End-to-End Testing
5 10 (16.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (15.25%) Test Management
7 8 (13.56%) Agile
7 8 (13.56%) ITSM
7 8 (13.56%) Test Strategy
8 7 (11.86%) DevOps
9 6 (10.17%) Defect Management
9 6 (10.17%) Integration Testing
9 6 (10.17%) Migration
9 6 (10.17%) Regression Testing
9 6 (10.17%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.17%) System Integration Testing
9 6 (10.17%) Time Management
10 5 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) C
3 5 (8.47%) COBOL
4 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.69%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) CCNP
6 1 (1.69%) CCSE
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) HP APS
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) QA
1 8 (13.56%) SLA
2 6 (10.17%) ISO 8583
3 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.69%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (1.69%) Firmware
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.69%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) HP ALM
2 6 (10.17%) SCCM
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) Avamar
3 1 (1.69%) Control-M
3 1 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (1.69%) PaperCut
3 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Dell
2 12 (20.34%) Cisco
3 10 (16.95%) IBM
4 9 (15.25%) Apple
5 8 (13.56%) ServiceNow
6 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
7 5 (8.47%) Remedy
8 3 (5.08%) Oracle
9 2 (3.39%) 3PAR
9 2 (3.39%) Citrix
9 2 (3.39%) NetApp
9 2 (3.39%) VMware
10 1 (1.69%) Avaloq
10 1 (1.69%) Canon
10 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.69%) Isilon
10 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.69%) Splunk
10 1 (1.69%) Trend Micro
10 1 (1.69%) Veeam